Land Use Change Impacts on Air Quality and Climate
... ozone and aerosols), and RF represents the policy-relevant metric for human perturbation.51 For aerosols, we restrict our analysis to the direct radiative effect (DRE) and direct radiative forcing (DRF) and exclude aerosol indirect effects. ...
... ozone and aerosols), and RF represents the policy-relevant metric for human perturbation.51 For aerosols, we restrict our analysis to the direct radiative effect (DRE) and direct radiative forcing (DRF) and exclude aerosol indirect effects. ...
VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE
... land, and erosion (with resulting high-cost damages to socio-economic and cultural infrastructure). In the Pacific islands region cyclones accounted for 76 per cent of the reported disasters from 1950 to 2004 with the average costs relating to damage caused per cyclone standing at USD 75.7 million i ...
... land, and erosion (with resulting high-cost damages to socio-economic and cultural infrastructure). In the Pacific islands region cyclones accounted for 76 per cent of the reported disasters from 1950 to 2004 with the average costs relating to damage caused per cyclone standing at USD 75.7 million i ...
Examining climate-biome - Wildlife Conservation Society Canada
... particular climatic conditions are another option (e.g., Scott et al., 2002). It is well recognized that these efforts make certain assumptions (e.g., coincidence of realized and fundamental niches) and do not clearly account for other processes (e.g., varied dispersal abilities, dependence on bioti ...
... particular climatic conditions are another option (e.g., Scott et al., 2002). It is well recognized that these efforts make certain assumptions (e.g., coincidence of realized and fundamental niches) and do not clearly account for other processes (e.g., varied dispersal abilities, dependence on bioti ...
Climate change challenges Tuvalu
... deltas subside by several millimeters per year because sediments collapse. In these cases, a rising sea level intensifies the existing regional effects. In other regions, a rise in sea level remains unnoticed because the land is rising to the same extent or even more than that of the sea level itsel ...
... deltas subside by several millimeters per year because sediments collapse. In these cases, a rising sea level intensifies the existing regional effects. In other regions, a rise in sea level remains unnoticed because the land is rising to the same extent or even more than that of the sea level itsel ...
Climate Risk and Adaptation Strategy Discussion Paper (DOCX, 6.9
... Council is strongly committed to both types of action. Our mitigation response is outlined in our Carbon Neutral Strategy1 – which is guiding Council to 2020 and 2025 reduction targets. This discussion paper will focus on our adaptation response. While we acknowledge that mitigation is necessary to ...
... Council is strongly committed to both types of action. Our mitigation response is outlined in our Carbon Neutral Strategy1 – which is guiding Council to 2020 and 2025 reduction targets. This discussion paper will focus on our adaptation response. While we acknowledge that mitigation is necessary to ...
Climate Extremes Communications Guidebook
... Are Humans Contributing to Changes in Climate Extremes? The Federal National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee said in its January 2013 draft of the National Climate Assessment 2014 (draft NCA 2014) report: “Some extreme weather and climate events have increased in recent decades ...
... Are Humans Contributing to Changes in Climate Extremes? The Federal National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee said in its January 2013 draft of the National Climate Assessment 2014 (draft NCA 2014) report: “Some extreme weather and climate events have increased in recent decades ...
Analysis of Statistical Power Reconciles Drought
... http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9ct8g2zr; Mark A Cane et al. “Temperature and violence”. Nature Climate Change 4.4 (2014), pp. 234–235. ...
... http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9ct8g2zr; Mark A Cane et al. “Temperature and violence”. Nature Climate Change 4.4 (2014), pp. 234–235. ...
Long-Term Climate Change Commitment and Reversibility: An EMIC Intercomparison Please share
... (EMICs) participated in the intercomparison. Coordinated experiments include simulations of the climate of the past millennium and simulations of long-term future climate change, in addition to a set of idealized experiments. This paper discusses the future climate projections (performed by 12 model ...
... (EMICs) participated in the intercomparison. Coordinated experiments include simulations of the climate of the past millennium and simulations of long-term future climate change, in addition to a set of idealized experiments. This paper discusses the future climate projections (performed by 12 model ...
References and Index - UN
... Bizikova L., T. Neale and I. Burton (2008) Canadian Communities’ Guidebook for Adaptation to Climate Change, Environment Canada and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Bloomberg, M. and R. Aggarwala (2008) ‘Think locally, act globally: How curbing global warming emissions can improve l ...
... Bizikova L., T. Neale and I. Burton (2008) Canadian Communities’ Guidebook for Adaptation to Climate Change, Environment Canada and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Bloomberg, M. and R. Aggarwala (2008) ‘Think locally, act globally: How curbing global warming emissions can improve l ...
Consumer behaviour and demand response of tourists to climate
... five winters would have very little natural snow’’. The survey, which identified significant negative demand reponses, was repeated by Pickering, Castley, and Burtt (2010), and its main scenario was also used in Switzerland (Behringer, Buerki, & Fuhrer, 2000). Unbehaun, Probstl, and Haider (2008) al ...
... five winters would have very little natural snow’’. The survey, which identified significant negative demand reponses, was repeated by Pickering, Castley, and Burtt (2010), and its main scenario was also used in Switzerland (Behringer, Buerki, & Fuhrer, 2000). Unbehaun, Probstl, and Haider (2008) al ...
Diapositiva 1 - Denise Milizia
... climate change levy which was an issue for a lot of climate change is a difficult one politically isn't it. climate change interview with Sky Read the transcript climate change review and the incentives we're giving to climate change levy that meant that the heavy industrial climate change had an im ...
... climate change levy which was an issue for a lot of climate change is a difficult one politically isn't it. climate change interview with Sky Read the transcript climate change review and the incentives we're giving to climate change levy that meant that the heavy industrial climate change had an im ...
CGE Training Materials for Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment
... impacts. These rely on application of expert judgement that can be undertaken by the national communications project team, or through an extended process using a broader group of stakeholders. Often, if such broader engagement processes are used there is wider view taken of all sectoral dependencies ...
... impacts. These rely on application of expert judgement that can be undertaken by the national communications project team, or through an extended process using a broader group of stakeholders. Often, if such broader engagement processes are used there is wider view taken of all sectoral dependencies ...
Tipping elements and climate-economic shocks: Pathways toward
... This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: eft2/2016EF000362 ...
... This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: eft2/2016EF000362 ...
Climate and finance systemic risks, more than an analogy?
... destruction. Climate systemic risk may only be collectively hedgeable. This leads us to the second reason why the notion of systemic risk is relevant for climate issues. Such a collective insurance of society is the equivalent of a value that society attributes to mitigation activities. The vehicle ...
... destruction. Climate systemic risk may only be collectively hedgeable. This leads us to the second reason why the notion of systemic risk is relevant for climate issues. Such a collective insurance of society is the equivalent of a value that society attributes to mitigation activities. The vehicle ...
Livelihoods and Climate Change - International Institute for
... to develop response measures that will address current development disparities and protect vulnerable communities from the longer-term impacts of climate change. In 2001, IUCN – The World Conservation Union, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Stockholm Environment ...
... to develop response measures that will address current development disparities and protect vulnerable communities from the longer-term impacts of climate change. In 2001, IUCN – The World Conservation Union, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Stockholm Environment ...
Petition - Center for Biological Diversity
... climate change is upon us as a result of greenhouse gas emissions, that climate changes are already occurring that harm our health and welfare, and that the effects will only worsen over time in the absence of regulatory action.”1 Through this Petition, the Center for Biological Diversity and 350.or ...
... climate change is upon us as a result of greenhouse gas emissions, that climate changes are already occurring that harm our health and welfare, and that the effects will only worsen over time in the absence of regulatory action.”1 Through this Petition, the Center for Biological Diversity and 350.or ...
Trends in the land and ocean carbon uptake
... The fraction of total CO2 emissions that remain in the atmosphere – the ‘airborne fraction (AF)’ – has implications for radiative forcing and global warming. It is thus an important quantity to understand and monitor. By definition, AF is a measure of the capacity of the CO2 sinks to keep up with th ...
... The fraction of total CO2 emissions that remain in the atmosphere – the ‘airborne fraction (AF)’ – has implications for radiative forcing and global warming. It is thus an important quantity to understand and monitor. By definition, AF is a measure of the capacity of the CO2 sinks to keep up with th ...
Climate change impacts in the Atlantic Basin and
... Wandel 2006). Actions can be either anticipatory or reactive, as well as autonomous (i.e., independent or ad-hoc) or planned (i.e., governmental measures) (Adger et al. 2005). Further, adaptation actions can be taken through either private (individual) or public (collective) action, though generall ...
... Wandel 2006). Actions can be either anticipatory or reactive, as well as autonomous (i.e., independent or ad-hoc) or planned (i.e., governmental measures) (Adger et al. 2005). Further, adaptation actions can be taken through either private (individual) or public (collective) action, though generall ...
Cirrus cloud radiative characteristics from continuous
... Cirrus clouds, and especially optically thin ice crystal clouds with an optical depth below 0.03 exist globally [1], but are mostly found in the tropical upper troposphere, where the temperature is very low [2]. These sub-visible cirrus clouds (SVC) have been investigated over sever ...
... Cirrus clouds, and especially optically thin ice crystal clouds with an optical depth below 0.03 exist globally [1], but are mostly found in the tropical upper troposphere, where the temperature is very low [2]. These sub-visible cirrus clouds (SVC) have been investigated over sever ...
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE LIMITED
... assessment shows that changes in weather patterns, including higher than normal temperatures and significant reduction in precipitation can easily lead to drought conditions. These when coupled with an expected increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, such as storms and hur ...
... assessment shows that changes in weather patterns, including higher than normal temperatures and significant reduction in precipitation can easily lead to drought conditions. These when coupled with an expected increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, such as storms and hur ...
Chapter 14 Environmental Hazards and Human Health
... General information on books can be reviewed at websites such as amazon.com. ...
... General information on books can be reviewed at websites such as amazon.com. ...
Green Finance Solves - UMKC Summer Debate Institute
... global spending on energy infrastructure by 2040. All this is adding momentum to renewable technologies, which already are making gains on power grids worldwide that would have been unthinkable just five years ago. As the cost of their technologies has fallen rapidly, wind and solar projects are com ...
... global spending on energy infrastructure by 2040. All this is adding momentum to renewable technologies, which already are making gains on power grids worldwide that would have been unthinkable just five years ago. As the cost of their technologies has fallen rapidly, wind and solar projects are com ...
Projections of Future Climate Change
... scaled assuming a value of −0.8 Wm−2 for 1990. Using the IS92 scenarios, the SAR gives a range for the global mean temperature change for 2100, relative to 1990, of +1 to +3.5°C. The estimated range for the six final illustrative SRES scenarios using updated methods is +1.4 to +5.6°C. The range for ...
... scaled assuming a value of −0.8 Wm−2 for 1990. Using the IS92 scenarios, the SAR gives a range for the global mean temperature change for 2100, relative to 1990, of +1 to +3.5°C. The estimated range for the six final illustrative SRES scenarios using updated methods is +1.4 to +5.6°C. The range for ...
Climate Action Team Report to Governor Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature December 2010
... California’s climate program. Because the solutions to Although climate change is driven by global climate change are multi-sectoral and multiatmospheric conditions, climate change impacts jurisdictional, expertise from many disciplines is are felt locally. State, provincial, and local required. The ...
... California’s climate program. Because the solutions to Although climate change is driven by global climate change are multi-sectoral and multiatmospheric conditions, climate change impacts jurisdictional, expertise from many disciplines is are felt locally. State, provincial, and local required. The ...
Global warming controversy
The global warming controversy concerns the public debate over whether global warming is occurring, how much has occurred in modern times, what has caused it, what its effects will be, whether any action should be taken to curb it, and if so what that action should be. In the scientific literature, there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused primarily by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view, though a few organizations with members in extractive industries hold non-committal positions. Disputes over the key scientific facts of global warming are now more prevalent in the popular media than in the scientific literature, where such issues are treated as resolved, and more in the United States than globally.Political and popular debate concerning the existence and cause of climate change includes the reasons for the increase seen in the instrumental temperature record, whether the warming trend exceeds normal climatic variations, and whether human activities have contributed significantly to it. Scientists have resolved many of these questions decisively in favour of the view that the current warming trend exists and is ongoing, that human activity is the primary cause, and that it is without precedent in at least 2000 years. Disputes that also reflect scientific debate include estimates of how responsive the climate system might be to any given level of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), and what the consequences of global warming will be.Global warming remains an issue of widespread political debate, often split along party political lines, especially in the United States. Many of the largely settled scientific issues, such as the human responsibility for global warming, remain the subject of politically or economically motivated attempts to downplay, dismiss or deny them – an ideological phenomenon categorised by academics and scientists as climate change denial. The sources of funding for those involved with climate science – both supporting and opposing mainstream scientific positions – have been questioned by both sides. There are debates about the best policy responses to the science, their cost-effectiveness and their urgency. Climate scientists, especially in the United States, have reported official and oil-industry pressure to censor or suppress their work and hide scientific data, with directives not to discuss the subject in public communications. Legal cases regarding global warming, its effects, and measures to reduce it have reached American courts. The fossil fuels lobby and free market think tanks have often been identified as overtly or covertly supporting efforts to undermine or discredit the scientific consensus on global warming.